A woman walks steadily towards the camera and in an instant fires a gun at the head of a hooded person. The scene seems like something out of a Hollywood movie about drug trafficking or terrorism, but it’s about political campaign of Valentina Gómez, a Colombian migrantwhich joins other campaigns on anti-migrant rhetoric and now promotes public executions.
“Public executions for any illegal who rapes or kills an American. They do not deserve deportation,” says Gómez’s video published on several digital platforms.
On X, formerly Twitter, the video is still valid and despite the message of “limited visibility”due to its “violent speech”, has achieved more than 5.2 million views and more than 64,000 likes. The message box was disabled.
On Instagram, Gómez’s account was suspendedunleashing Gómez’s complaint.
“The fact that they have restricted my video and suspended my account shows that I am the biggest threat to the establishment because I say things as I see them, I give people hope and I don’t need their money,” Gómez responded about the veto.
Gómez is seeking a position in the Texas Congress, but his political career has not been successful so far, as he barely achieved sixth position among Republican candidates to compete for the Secretary of State in Missouri. The position was won by party colleague Denny Hoskins.
The Republican defends her campaign, which even unleashed criticism from the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.since she is of Colombian origin, but Gómez has even said that Texas Governor Greg Abbott should use his video of public executions to “prevent” the crossing of immigrants.
The important League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) joined in rejecting Gómez’s campaign.
“LULAC denounces violent crime in our nation and expresses its deepest condolences to its victims and their loved ones,” says Roman Palomares, LULAC national president and board chair. “However, we believe in the Christian principles of justice, not retribution. Using public executions as a hook for a politically motivated message fuels blind hatred. “This type of language is intended to appeal to an extreme base of individuals who believe in the lie that all immigrants are here to harm others.”
The use of a crime in New York
Gómez uses in his campaign the video of a woman whom Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, an undocumented immigrant, set on fire in the New York subway while she was sleeping. The man was arrested and pleaded “not guilty” despite video evidence that went viral. Zapeda-Calil claims that he was too drunk and does not remember the events.
LULAC rejected this and other types of crimes against anyone in the US, but criticized Gómez for promoting hatred towards immigrants. The state director of LULAC in Texas, Gabriel Rosales, even pointed out that this type of speech generates more hatred towards certain social groups, such as Hispanics.
“The mass shooting at Walmart in El Paso killed 23 people and injured 22 precisely because of racial hate speech. “Social networks should prohibit this type of reckless display to attract attention,” Rosales said.
Gloria Lea, the organization’s general counsel, recalled that every person subject to deportation has the right to due process.
“Publications of this type [como la de Gómez] “On social networks they incite violence and vigilantism, and we do not support them,” he said.
Valentina Gómez is ahead of the electoral campaign in 2026, to challenge Congressman Dan Crenshaw, from District 2, whom she describes as a RINO (a term to define Republicans “in name only”).
She is a real estate investor, she earned an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Tulane University.
“I’m 25 years old, I have a master’s degree in business administration, I speak several languages fluently, I was a former NCAA Division I swimmer and I have many more awards to my name,” she said in a video also posted on X. “But this is The only reason you should vote for me: because I don’t give a damn what all those bureaucrats in Washington, DC, think of me. I come to Texas to tell the truth, to denounce criminals and to save children. Fasten your seatbelts, Texas, because this is not my first rodeo.”
Indeed, Gómez’s way of doing politics is not new, since he sparked controversy by publishing messages against the LGBTQ+ community during his campaign in Missouri, where he only achieved 8% of the votes in the Republican primary.